Abraham
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[14:48]
[His promise will be fulfilled] on the Day when the earth shall be changed into another earth, as shall be the heavens, and when [all men] shall appear before God, the One who holds absolute sway over all that exists.

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* v.48 : This is an allusion to the total, cataclysmic change, on the Last Day, of all natural phenomena, and thus of the universe as known to man (cf. 20:105-107 and the corresponding note 90). Since that change will be beyond anything that man has ever experienced or what the human mind can conceive, all the Qur’anic descriptions – in the next two verses as well as in many other places – of what is to happen on that Last Day are, of necessity, expressed in allegorical terms: and this applies also to all descriptions of man’s condition, good or bad, in the life to come. (Cf. note 37 above. relating to the term “parable” often used in the Qur’ān.)